The Many Joys Of Being A Teacher.

There are many challenges facing educators, 

often including and not limited to government policies, fundings, salaries, over-populated classes, disruptive students, unhelpful and criticising parents and a lack of supplies. But for any teacher worth his or her salt, dealing with these and other stressors is totally worth it. 

Teaching is one of the few professions that truly offers innumerable opportunities to experience joy and fulfilment -- both in the everyday work environment and internally. Teaching is regarded as the noblest of all professions and very rightly so, I dare say. It is considered as a calling with a special mission in life demanding commitment, integrity, and dedication. It is a calling that brings with it a big challenge to deal with young and delicate minds of different needs, moods, upbringings, exposures, environment and varied types of personalities. 

A teacher job is not solely to teach or to merely impart knowledge, rather they generally help learners form a lens through which to view the world and they position to provide you with the tools to change that same world. The teacher's job to guide students in their academic, social, and emotional development.

I do not intend to portray teaching through rose-coloured glasses, but it is absolutely tested and true that educators who love the work they do mostly have the honor of knowing that they touch lives each day of their lives. Invariably, both these kind of teachers and the students they teach will experience a very high level of job satisfaction.

When you become an educator, your life changes completely. Your priorities change. You are continually provided with opportunities to maintain a spirit of youthfulness, exuberance and a flexible attitude...

The teacher will realise that to effectively educate, you will be pushed to continually be on the look out for personal growth and development. You become a life long learner.

And, as you, the teacher continue to learn and grow higher, you will find yourself doing the following:

Making a Difference
Rewriting histories and changing destinies.
Doing a lot more than simply transmitting information.
Driving students to realise their dreams.
Lighting fires in their hearts and eyes.
Fostering excellence.
They witness learning, comprehension, and awareness.
They see and diffuse confusions.
They calm frustration.
And they, undoubtedly, kindle passion.
Educators make you want to learn more and they help you learn more. 

Educators are agents of change.

And it was Mark Van Doren who said, "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery".
And, Anatole France also said that, the whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

What greater joy could there be?